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There is restorative justice, banishment, shaming, death, and surely other means I'm forgetting. As ziq pointed out, it's all unique cases. Wasn't it Emma Goldman that said something like she won't tell how anarchists should go about something, they will decided themselves when they get there. Someone remember the quote?

ziq wrote at September 9, 2018 at 7:40 PM
(edited at September 9, 2018 at 7:44 PM)

There's no such thing as an anarchist prison or an anarchist society. Anarchy is the constant struggle against authority. Prisons, rapists and so on are all forms of authority that we struggle against.

If you're asking how an anarchist would handle authority, that's up to the anarchist answering the question; informed by the specific conditions present with each unique case.

In the mean time, I resent language that suggests there’s some kind of Platonic Anarchism.

I’m fine with ziq having their own brand of anarchism, maybe it’s even mainstream on the Internet. But, from my perspective it’s exactly the anarchism that would maximize human suffering, and transparently so.

Defining anarchism so narrowly means that progressives who don’t prefer communism, and who don’t want humans suffering at the hands of whoever is strongest in the absence of any counterbalancing power, will have no ideological home.

ziq wrote at September 11, 2018 at 4:50 AM
(edited at September 11, 2018 at 4:51 AM)

Anarchism means anarchism. Communism means communism, mutualism means mutualism, collectivism means collectivism, and syndicalism means syndicalism. No one is obliged to mention every tired economic theory that has attached itself to anarchism whenever someone asks about anarchism. Anarchism is about a lot more than economics.

well this is one of the issues I have with the concept of complete anarchism. People cannot fuction without some form of control. Otherwise people WILL take advantage and pedofiles and rapists will roam free.

Because they see humans as violent marauders that go from town to town killing babies for fun I guess. And somehow immediately stop their baby killing rampage when a state asks them to cease and desist.

Let them out of prison, have a sympathetic ear, protect their victims and themselves, encourage to talk about it in a safe way, try to find the real reason for the action and close that gap within the offender and/or the society. Uphold the good in human beings, without ignoring the evil we all have in us. Establish and maintain a collective base where feelings and desires can be expressed without having to fear judgement or punishment. At best, the roots of a action can grow into something positive.

Because no state will exist, the small society I would want to live in decides consensually what action is a real crime (wrong action for a happy life inside the small society). Everyone with a veto will no longer be part of it.

(Yeah, it's not just that and everything will be fine. It's just a abstract and quick answer.)

If people (perhaps the victim and/or her loved ones) are pissed off at a rapist, they might kill that rapist. Or they might torture the rapist. Or they might forcibly castrate the rapist. Or, they might forgive the rapist and rehabilitate. Or they might do something I haven’t listed.

The point is that there are no laws that codify what is to be done with rapists. Neither is there any law that protects them from so-called “mob justice”. Laws don’t exist in Anarchy.

Your question doesn’t really make sense. Your asking as if we are proposing some kind of policy for how to deal with rapists. We aren’t. If people (perhaps the victim and/or her loved ones) are pissed off at a rapist, they might kill that rapist. Or they might torture the rapist. Or they might forcibly castrate the rapist. Or, they might forgive the rapist. Or they might do something I haven’t listed.

The point is that there are no laws that codify what is to be done with rapists. Neither is there any law that protects them from so-called “mob justice”. Laws don’t exist in Anarchy.

Chemical castration only works if they stick to the drugs- they'll go right back to however they were before after, with maybe some side effects to fuck them up. That's not a solution feasible without an officer forcing them to keep the regime on.